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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. extremely modest or shy;
- Example: "cheerfully bearing reproaches but shamefaced at praise"- H.O.Taylor

2. showing a sense of shame;
[syn: shamefaced, sheepish]

3. showing a sense of guilt;
- Example: "a guilty look"
- Example: "the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"- Eric Linklater
[syn: guilty, hangdog, shamefaced, shamed]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Shamefaced \Shame"faced`\, a. [For shamefast; AS. scamfaest. See
   Shame, n., and Fast firm.]
   Easily confused or put out of countenance; diffident;
   bashful; modest.
   [1913 Webster]

         Your shamefaced virtue shunned the people's prise.
                                                  --Dryden.
   [1913 Webster]

   Note: Shamefaced was once shamefast, shamefacedness was
         shamefastness, like steadfast and steadfastness; but
         the ordinary manifestations of shame being by the face,
         have brought it to its present orthography. --Trench.
         [1913 Webster] -- Shame"faced, adv. --
         Shame"faced`ness, n.
         [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

shamefaced
    adj 1: extremely modest or shy; "cheerfully bearing reproaches
           but shamefaced at praise"- H.O.Taylor
    2: showing a sense of shame [syn: shamefaced, sheepish]
    3: showing a sense of guilt; "a guilty look"; "the hangdog and
       shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"- Eric Linklater [syn:
       guilty, hangdog, shamefaced, shamed]